execute permission denied on vim

[Daniel Gowans]

I recently installed the latest version of VIM on my hp-ux box. However, I can't run it. I always get, even as root:

vim: execute permission denied

The permissions look good (755) and there is execute permission for each directory below it. It is installed in /usr/local/bin

What could be wrong? Strangely there are some links to it, one called view, that execute fine. They all link to it and execute it in different modes. Is it trying to use a forbidden swap space? Any ideas?

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Daniel,

One possibility is that it's an SUID program sitting in a NOSUID filesystem.

Run fsadm against the mount point & check the file for SUID bits.

HTH,
Jeff

[John Palmer]

It sounds as though vim isn't a valid executable. What do you get from:
file vim

It's also possible that it's a script with a bad value in the first line of the form:
#!

Regards,
John

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

This sounds like you have a PARISC 2.0 executable loaded onto a PARISC 1.1 system
What Model and what OS are you using
what result do you get when you do :
file vim
what vim

[David Bonham_1]

I had the same problem. I found out that I downloaded and installed the wrong version.

I then downloaded the correct version (for 11 and 11i) from: http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,582,00.html It installed and works fine. Running: file vim on the first install showed vim as an ELF-32 format.